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Hello,

Seen on the same flower as the Bibio, at the North Cape (Norway), this Helophilus :

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H. pendulus

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Kahis,

thanks.

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all this effort !
Travelling to the North Cape, to find Helophilus ...
anyway, I'm afraid Kahis is right


Theo

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As a matter of fact, I was rather surprised to see so much insects (and so little mosquitos, because we were on the coast...).

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The arctic has a lot of life during the short summer. Few species in comparison with the tropic of course, but the insect biomass can be impressize considering the conditions. All those migrant geese etc don't fly from Africa to the arctic for nothing ;)

The boreal/arctic Helophilus species are by no means common up north. Having spent a month (total over new last few years) looking for them in northern Finland I've found exactly one H. lapponicus among hundreds of the more common, southern species.